The Man in the Red Coat
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Erscheinungsdatum
07.11.2019
Verlag
VermilionSeitenzahl
280 (Printausgabe)
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18356 KB
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Englisch
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9781473574038
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK AWARDS 2020*
'A bravura performance, highly entertaining' Evening Standard
The Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending takes us on a rich, witty tour of Belle Epoque Paris, via the life story of the pioneering surgeon Samuel Pozzi.
In the summer of 1885, three Frenchmen arrived in London for a few days' shopping. One was a Prince, one was a Count, and the third was a commoner, who four years earlier had been the subject of one of John Singer Sargent's greatest portraits. The commoner was Samuel Pozzi, society doctor, pioneer gynaecologist and free-thinker - a scientific man with a famously complicated private life.
Pozzi's life played out against the backdrop of the Parisian Belle Epoque. The beautiful age of glamour and pleasure more often showed its ugly side: hysterical, narcissistic, decadent and violent, with more parallels to our own age than we might imagine.
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2019**
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Gift this to to the most culturally sensitive person in your life (apart from yourself)
Julian Barnes seems to be having some sort of second spring this autumn. Fresh from the emotional turmoil of "The only Story" the Barnes pendulum swings literally the other way with this tale of a real life fin-de-siecle aesthete (in a non-Oscar Wildean sense). I treasure Barnes' writing almost as much as that of an anonymous author (later to be revealed as an woman called Jane Austen) with his fine ear(and pen) for the intricacies of human nature and those eloquent pauses between words and phrases who seem to hide so much more than they reveal. This is the sort of book that requires you to have a nap between chapters because each of them carries the richness of a particularly fragrant fruitcake. On the other hand you might just take another sip of Lillet and greedily read on. "The Man in the Red Coat" is the story of Dr. Pozzi, a fashionable Italian Doctor, who, in the company of two other gentlemen, travelled to Paris at the end of the long 19th century to experience the most sophisticated culture known to mankind at the time. Cue some familiar faces(basically everybody ever mentioned in Proust) interspersed with Barnes own take on things(watch for the anecdote on a certain Prince of Wales).
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